I’m strongly considering breaking up with Speedo, the swimsuit manufacturer, as far as swimsuits are concerned. It’s very hard. I’ve been wearing Speedo swimsuits since 1996 when I bought my first one in the sports shop in Samaritaine on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris where I had the good taste to be living at [...]
I will be moving again in the short term. It’s rather annoying as I was planning to move later this year, on the assumption that I’d have found a house I wanted to buy in an area I wanted to live in, and would be moving to a owned Chateau WnB rather than a rented [...]
Dear Amazon,
I have spent some time drafting notes to your customer service over the last day and to be honest, the response I have gotten suggests they don’t actually read the messages they get properly.
I don’t own a Kindle, but I do have Kindle software running on an iPad, I access Kindle via webapp from [...]
One of the things that saddens me most about living in Ireland at the moment, is we don’t have any vision for the sort of society we want to live in. When Enda Kenny speaks to the nation he’s not inspiring, he’s telling us bad news.
I’m sick of bad news. I realise things are far [...]
Our economists are falling over themselves to show their relevance in the new scary today in Ireland. I wish they’d all shut up.
The overwhelming majority of them completely failed to foresee the economic disaster which befell the country. Their absolute inability to read their own crystal ball ill behoves them to be wheeled out to [...]
I graduated Applied Languages in Dublin City University more than ten years ago, and on the basis of some of that course, I was recommended to look at interpreting courses. Specifically, the interpreting course at the Polytechnic of Central London was recommended.
When I eventually got there, it had already become the University of Westminster and [...]
Enda Kenny announced last night he was resigning his teaching position. This is a job he last held in 1975 apparently. I’m not to clear on the date, because I was only about 2 and a half years old when he set up to be a TD for Mayo. He is – I understand – [...]
Or else I missed them. I’m not sure I get to vote because I am waiting for the supplementary list to be published to see if I can vote. I moved house at a bad time and only got my updated form in just about on time…I hope.
I’ve one primary question for anyone from Labour, [...]
I never wanted to live in interesting times. They’re usually interesting in a bad way punctuated with interesting in a good way from time to time. The last 10 years have been good and bad but they are a walk in the park compared to the current now status in Ireland.
The Green Party have pulled [...]
Dear Brian,
so it’s all over and you’ve prevailed. I’m interested in this, however, which thejournal.ie has livetweeted from your “I’m a terrific victor” confidence vote winning speech:
Position of our country would be even more perilous if we hadn’t taken the economic decisions we needed to
I disagree, Brian, and vehemently so. You and your party have [...]